This module takes place over 3 days in a classroom and out in the field. You must have completed module 2 (or other Natural England approved badger trapping training) to attend this module.

To get your ‘certificate of competence’, you must pass a written and practical assessment. Your course provider will send you your certificate.

Once you complete this course, you can apply for a licence or get added to a licence as an additional authorised person.

This module teaches you how to:

• comply with rules for badger trapping and vaccination

• carry out fieldwork safely

• follow biosecurity guidelines when you’re vaccinating

• handle vaccines - how to store them, use the cold chain system, and keep records

• reconstitute and use vaccines

• assess badger welfare pre and post vaccination

• vaccinate and mark wild badgers - you can practice this during training

This module does not teach you how to:

• carry out a field survey

• look for badger field signs

• map read or produce survey maps

• estimate the number of traps to deploy

• understand where or how to site badger traps

• pre-bait

• set badger traps